[Wikimedia-l] Lsjbot has now started to generate 1-1, 5 M articles of species on sv:wp

Daniel ~ Leinad danny.leinad at gmail.com
Sat Jan 12 00:58:11 UTC 2013


2013/1/11 Quim Gil <qgil at wikimedia.org>:
> Wow
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> On 01/11/2013 08:45 AM, Anders Wennersten wrote:
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>> Inspired by the botgenerated articles of species made on nl:wp in late
>> 2010 a colleague of mine, User:Lsj, started a similar project on sv:wp
>> early 2012. By October 2012 his bot had generated some 65 000 articles,
>> with essentially complete coverage of all fungi and birds.
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>> He has since...
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> Very interesting! I personally think this is a good story for the Wikimedia
> Blog.

Story about bot-pedia - no, thanks. Human can create much more
valuable content basing on various sources and this is strong
advantage of Wikipedia (not short articles like in traditional paper
encyclopaedias).

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Daniel // Leinad



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